Fisher
Fisher is an archaic term for a fisherman, revived as gender-neutral.
Fisher, Fishers or The Fisher may also refer to:
Places
Australia
- Division of Fisher, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland
- Electoral district of Fisher, a state electoral district in South Australia
- Fisher, Australian Capital Territory
- Fisher, Queensland, a suburb in the City of Mount Isa
- Fisher, South Australia, a locality
- Hundred of Fisher, a cadastral unit in South Australia
Canada
- Rural Municipality of Fisher
- Fisher (electoral district), a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada
United Kingdom
- Fisher Bank, a sea area of the UK shipping forecast
United States
- Fisher, Arkansas
- Fisher, California (disambiguation), multiple locations
- Fisher, Illinois
- Fisher, Louisiana
- Fisher, Minnesota
- Fisher, Missouri
- Fisher, Oregon, an unincorporated community
- Fisher, Pennsylvania
- Fisher, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Fisher Island, Florida
- Fishers, Indiana
- Fishers, New York
- Fishers Island, New York
Archaeological sites
- Fisher site, an archaeological site in Greene County, Pennsylvania
- Fisher Farm site, an archaeological site in the Centre County, Pennsylvania
Law
- Fisher v. University of Texas (2013), a 2013 Supreme Court case
- Fisher v. University of Texas (2016), a 2016 Supreme Court case
Organizations
- Fisher Body, a former automobile coachbuilder
- Max M. Fisher College of Business, part of the Ohio State University
- Fisher Communications
- Fisher F.C., a football club in England
- Fisher Electronics, a Sanyo subsidiary producing hi-fi equipment
- The Fisher (electronics manufacturer), a line of electronics marketed by Avery Fisher and predecessor to Fisher Electronics
- Fisher House Foundation, an organization funding the construction of family lodging facilities near military hospitals
People
- Fisher (surname), an English surname
- Fisher (musician), Australian house music producer
- Fisher Ames (1758–1808), American politician
- Fisher A. Blocksom (1782–1876), American politician and lawyer from Ohio
- Fisher Stevens (born 1963), American actor, director, producer and writer
- Sergey Golovkin (1959–1996), Russian serial killer known as "The Fisher"
Science and mathematics
- Fisher meteorite of 1894, which landed in Minnesota, United States (see meteorite falls)
- Fisher's exact test, a statistical significance test
- Fisher's method, also known as Fisher's combined probability test
- Fisher equation, an equation in financial mathematics and economics
- Fisher transformation, a transformation in statistics used to test some hypotheses
Other uses
- Fisher (animal) (Pekania pennanti), a North American mustelid
- Fisher (band), a rock band featuring Kathy Fisher as lead singer
- Fisher (comic strip), a Canadian comic strip by Philip Street
- Fisher (yachts), motorsailers first built in the 1970s
See also
- Fisher Island (disambiguation)
- Fisherman (disambiguation)
- Fishery
- All pages with titles containing Fisher
- Kingfisher
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